Regex replacement not working

Paul Moloney

I’ve checked the following regex string against a number of regex syntax checkers and it’s valid:

<img src="([A-Za-z0-9-_\.%]*)" alt="([A-Za-z0-9-_\.]*)"(\s)*\/>

(I’ve also tried the alternative where the double-quotes are escaped:

<img src=\"([A-Za-z0-9-_\.%]*)\" alt=\"([A-Za-z0-9-_\.]*)\"(\s)*\/>

However, neither of these work for me in Notepad++ regex:

Any help on the valid syntax for Notepad++ appreciated (what flavour of regex does it use?

P.

PeterJones

@Paul-Moloney said in Regex replacement not working:

Any help on the valid syntax for Notepad++ appreciated (what flavour of regex does it use?

The docs explain Notepad++ uses the Boost regular expression library (v1.70).

But in every regex version I’ve used, [A-Za-z0-9-_\.%] would cause problems; in general, hyphens mean “range” inside a character class, unless they are escaped or the last character in the class. So [0-9-] is okay, [0-9-_] is not, but [0-9_-] is (non-range hyphen last) and [0-9\-_] is.